Bring some of the most loved flavours in Japanese summertime cuisine into your home with this easy to make unagi donburi. The sweet caramelised sauce drizzled over perfectly grilled unagi and served over a bowl of warm rice will make any Japanese food lover mouth water!

Cooking Time: 15mins - 30mins

Serves:3 to 4

Total time: 30mins - 60mins

Course: Main

Cook Method: Oven-bake

Cuisine: Japanese

Ingredients:

2 fillets unagi (eel)
Japanese sansho pepper (to taste)

Sauce

¼ cup soy sauce
¼ cup mirin
2½ tbsp granulated sugar
1½ tbsp sake

Steps:

Making the Sauce

Combine mirin and sake in a small saucepan and bring it to a boil to evaporate alcohol.

Add sugar and stir until sugar is completely dissolved. Then add soy sauce and bring it to a boil. Then reduce heat and continue cooking on simmer for 10 mins, or until mixture thickens. Turn off the heat to cool it down.

Unagi Donburi (Grilled Eel On Rice)

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Bring some of the most loved flavours in Japanese summertime cuisine into your home with this easy to make unagi donburi. The sweet caramelised sauce drizzled over perfectly grilled unagi and served over a bowl of warm rice will make any Japanese food lover mouth water!

Cooking Time: 15mins - 30mins

Serves: 3 to 4

Total time: 30mins - 60mins

Course: Main

Cook Method: Oven-bake

Cuisine: Japanese

Ingredients

2 fillets unagi (eel)
Japanese sansho pepper (to taste)

Sauce

¼ cup soy sauce
¼ cup mirin
2½ tbsp granulated sugar
1½ tbsp sake

Instructions

Making the Sauce

Combine mirin and sake in a small saucepan and bring it to a boil to evaporate alcohol.

Add sugar and stir until sugar is completely dissolved. Then add soy sauce and bring it to a boil. Then reduce heat and continue cooking on simmer for 10 mins, or until mixture thickens. Turn off the heat to cool it down.